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Editing stories in queue
By enterfornone , Section Wishlist [] Posted on Thu Dec 07, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST

As much as you can check and double check, often you will make a typo or another mistake and not see if until it is pointed out in an editorial comment. It would be nice to be able to go back and make changes once a story has been submitted.

A few thoughts on this:

People need to be able to change their vote (eg if they vote a story down because it was in the wrong section, they need to vote it up once fixed).
People need to be informed when and what changes are made so they can tell if it will affect their vote.
There needs to be a way of minimising major changes (ie complete rewrites) that would affect topical comments already posted.
Should people be able to modify their comments too?
Another, less drastic solution to the problem would be to allow people to completely delete their stories from the queue and resubmit without having to wait for it to be voted down.
Any other thoughts?

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Should posters be able to modify their stories and comments?

· Yeah, stories and comments 0%

· Yeah, just stories, all the time 0%

· Yeah, stories, but just in the mod queue 10%

· Ppl should be able to delete their story from the queue and resubmit 90%

· No, not at all 0%

Votes: 10
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Editing stories in queue | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 hidden)

Partially agree (3.00 / 1) (#1)
by Mystic on Thu Dec 07, 2000 at 09:15:37 PM PST

I agree that K5 does not provide the ability to the author to edit the story in queue. But if it does that, there are various things that have to be taken care of as you pointed out. I feel that it will become too complicated. Say I commented on the story about say the section choosen and then you go and change the section. If I let that comment of mine remain there, it will look odd. So I shoudl be allowed to delete it .... and so on.

What I would want if practicality is considered, would be to let the author of the story drop the story before it is voted down, so that he can write it again with corrections. But then if this is done, I would not want that story I myself dropped (I am the author) to be stored into my Diary (I understand rusty is coding away to glory in that direction :0) )

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I think... by hurstdog, 12/11/2000 05:10:41 PM PST (5.00 / 1)

OR....... (3.00 / 1) (#2)
by spectatorion on Fri Dec 08, 2000 at 04:04:30 AM PST

People should be able to yank their stories from the queue. There are always a lot of "if this were presented in X way, i would have modded up, but instead you get -1" and comments of that sort. But it sometimes takes a while to get the story out of the queue. Users should be able to remove their story from the queue. This way, they can edit and repost it (if they choose) or go cower in shame if they are too badly scarred. You might even put an "edit/resubmit" button there for a user so that they can click on it and the story will be taken out of the queue and their original text will be in the boxes so they can edit it (and don't have to cut and paste and reformat it. I think that this would make scoop much better (yes it is possible!).

hmm...will rusty (or any scoop developers) even see this? I hope so. ::Sigh:: I wish I knew enough perl and SQL to be a scoop developer myself. pity me.

Of course we will! by rusty, 12/08/2000 07:36:15 PM PST (none / 0)

Edit Queue? (5.00 / 1) (#4)
by loner on Sat Dec 09, 2000 at 02:01:34 PM PST

Perhaps the answer is another queue that comes before the submission queue: When Joe wants to submit an article, he puts it in the edit queue first. Here other users can do one thing only: submit editorial comments, they can't vote and they can't post topical comments. All they can say is: "fix this typo" or "rephrase that sentence" or "change it to another section", etc.

Joe can read the comments and change the story as needed until he believes that it's ready to be voted on, then he clicks on a button and the story is moved to the Moderation queue. At this point the existing editorial comments are removed or archived, and the story can no longer be changed (after all the author has already had plenty of time to fix it based on others' input).

The good thing about this is that when Joe makes a change, nothing else is affected. The editorial comments can stick around, and there are still no votes or topical comments that may be invalidated by the changes. Also to make things easy to follow, the story in edit queue should have a list of all changes made. And perhaps even each editorial comment should say which revision it belongs to (either automated or done by convention).

Oooooh by rusty, 12/10/2000 07:33:48 PM PST (5.00 / 2)
Nice Idea, but might have some problems by spectatorion, 12/10/2000 10:18:27 PM PST (3.50 / 2)
One problem by GreatUnknown, 12/14/2000 07:32:20 AM PST (5.00 / 1)

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